Role of Education in Women’s Emancipation: A Study of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Abstract

The present paper studies the role and importance of education in a woman’s life. It widens her horizons and equips her with the capability of defining herself. Education gives her strength to question the wrong and ossified belief system of the society. It leads her to emancipation and assertion of beliefs and views. In Difficult Daughters, Virmati struggled against the patriarchal system with the help of education. Traditionally, higher education was a forbidden area for women. Women were given the minimal elementary training which prepared her for her ultimate journey of life i.e. marriage.